9 and 11 Black Abbey Street (including 1 Jacob Street) and associated boundary walls and setted access

House and pair of back-to-back cottages including first-floor workshop, with former cellar dwelling, between 1839 and 1844 for Joseph Lang.

MATERIALS: buff sandstone, welsh slate.

PLAN: number 9 double-pile with passageway at the right and spine stair, number 11 single-depth with single-depth cottage (number 1) and cellar to rear.

EXTERIOR: standing at the corner of Black Abbey Street and Jacob Street, abutted to the east by an altered mirror pair (not included).

The front faces north and is watershot (in 2020, painted). Each house is two bays wide, with two stacked windows at the left, and the doorway with squared surround to the right (ground-floor openings boarded in 2020 at number 11 and replacements at number 9). Number 9 has an overlight transom to the doorway with moulded modillion cornice. The eaves have stone gutter-corbels.

The west wall is gabled and watershot in diminishing courses, with only number 1 (to the right) painted. There are stacked doorways central to the gable (that is, against the party wall), the entrance accessed by three stone steps, with a put-log for a hoist above. There are three stacked windows to the right (the cellar window being blocked and the others replacements).

The rear (south) wall is two-and-a-half storeys tall, with stone gutter-corbels. Number 1 has a first-floor window at the right with possible blocked doorway at the left, and the ground floor has two windows at the left with a blocked doorway to the right. Number 9 has a basement-and-ground-floor rear outshut in random-coursed stone, raised in brick.

INTERIOR: number 9 retains its floor plan including stone stair, and wide early-C19 floorboards, chimney breasts and some doors and hinges. The attic and cellar of number 9 were not inspected. Number 1 retains its plan-form, stone stair, plank doors, cellar accessed by stone steps with stone shelves, and range fireplace. Number 11 was not inspected (except for its attic) and the cellar to Number 1 was not inspected. All of the roof structure to numbers 11 and 1 appears to be of machine-sawn timbers.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the rear garden wall retains the blocked openings for the rear ashpits and coal bunkers, which do not survive. The setted back street also forms part of the item, although under different ownership.